About me

This blogname was derived from the novel The Secret Life Of Saeed The Pessoptimist by the Palestinian Israeli Emile Habiby: absurdism as weapon against the (ir)realities of daily life in Palestine/Israel. (The subtitle is from a book by Dutch author Renate Rubinstein. It could as well be my motto).
My real name is Martin (Maarten Jan) Hijmans. I've been covering the ME since 1977 and have been a correspondent in Cairo. I started my 'Abu Pessoptimist' blog in January 2009 out of anger during the onslaught in Gaza. The other one, The Pessoptmist, is meant to be a sister version in English. (En voor de Nederlandstaligen: ik wilde in november 2009 een tweede blog in het Engels beginnen en ontdekte te laat dat als je één account hebt, een profiel dan meteen ook voor allebei de blogs geldt. Vandaar dat het nu ineens in het Engels is... So sorry.)

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Palestinian teen killed by prematurely exploded bomb

Mohammed Halabiyya

Israeli military sources have reported that a Palestinian teen was
killed, on Saturday evening, in Abu Dis town east of occupied Jerusalem,
when an explosive he allegedly was preparing to throw at an Israeli
military outpost, detonated prematurely.
The explosion did not lead to any casualties among the soldiers. The body of the slain Palestinian was severely mutilated due to the blast. The Palestinian Red Crescent said its medics rushed to the scene, but Israeli soldiers prevented them from approaching the Palestinian, and
declared the area a closed military zone.
The slain Palestinian was later identified Mohammad Nabil Halabiyya, 16 years of age, from Abu Dis town.On Saturday evening, the Israeli army transferred the body of the 13 year old Roqayya Eid Abu Eid,
who was killed, earlier Saturday, by an armed guard of the Israeli settlement Anatot, built on Palestinian lands near Anata, northeat of Jerusalem.